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Ornithologia, sive, Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates : cum brevi & accurata cujusque speciei descriptione, citationibus auctorum de iis tractantium, nominibus eis ab ipsis impositis, nominibusque vulgaribus

by: Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques, 1723-1806; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI; Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1763

Topics: Ornithology, Birds, Birds

Publisher: Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Theodorum Haak

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: Latin

Volume: t. 2 (1763)

Item Size: 925.3M

An abridged ed. of original published in French & Latin in 1760, 6 vols

Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, initials

Errata: p. 500, t. 1

Include indexes

Nissen, C. Illustrierte Vogelbücher

Anker, J. Bird books

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SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015707094, 39088015707136) has bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With the Tucker collational notes

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in contemporary marbled paper boards, title in ms. on paper spine label; uncut

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015707177, 39088015707219) lacking half title pages

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped in red on t.p.s.: Smithsonian Institution; at end: Oct (?) 10 1855

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine, red edges; measures 21 cm